Committee on Human Fertility and questionnaire sub-committee

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M35
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: Committee on Human Fertility and questionnaire sub-committee
Date(s)	: 1944-1949
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 1 box, 3 folders
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The College's Committee on Human Fertility was established in 1944 to assist the Biological and Medical Committee of the Royal Commission on Population in clinical investigations of sterility. It held meetings from May 1944 to March 1945. The questionnaire sub-committee met from March 1945 to March 1949; it supervised an enquiry (by questionnaire) into infertility which was conducted by E Lewis-Faning. Lewis-Faning's report was published in typescript as follows: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Report on an enquiry into family limitation and its influence on human fertility during the past fifty years.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers relating to the establishment of the RCOG Committee on Human Fertility and records relating to its surveys, questionnaire and report.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Most of the correspondence in this series is between Sir Eardley Holland and other committee members; it therefore is probable that the records were removed at some stage from the general file series of Sir Eardley Holland's papers as College President.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives hold the minute book of the committee on human fertility (Ref: T8); minute book of the questionnaire sub-committee (Ref: T14); Sir Eardley Holland's papers as President (Ref: A4/5); Presidents' papers, 1984-1986, relating to a later fertility sub-committee of the College, 1979-1992 (Ref: A4/21/78); the records themselves are at B10/10. A copy of Lewis-Faning's report is held in the College Library (press mark CT).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2001